27 Jesse Jackson Quotes

Jesse Jackson quotes

1. Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.

2. If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

3. We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

4. There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

5. We need a regime change in this country.

6. If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority,

7. Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up

8. See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

9. 'Can I get 5,000 dollars?' 'Yeah, when Jesse Jackson gets a job.'

1. We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

2. We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.

3. The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.

4. Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.

5. What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

6. Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

7. Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

8. Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

9. A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

10. When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

11. I'm too mature to be angry.

12. We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

13. There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.

14. Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

15. His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

16. So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

17. I remember being taught my place.

18. [Donald Trump] can't reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they're so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.